Books, Film, Art

I still have that little Navajo blanket and look at it occasionally, touching the geometric pattern, important symbols in Navajo myth. A...

Watching him poke and pull at the hinges of our garage door I wondered whether he’d cashed his stimulus check yet—and what he did with...

Some people have a preternatural memory when it comes to flower names. I have a friend (a little unassuming lady who wears sweaters with...

Humans have a lot in common with chickens, including an unreliable character. Even Shakespeare had something to say about our shared...

Some people thrived this past year during the pandemic, barely noticing the lock-downs, shut-downs, and shout-downs between the maskers...

Bea walked over to the table and picked up two large, clear plastic bags each containing a colorful quilt in them.  “Look what I’ve been...

It occurred to me that I’d never given my younger self much credit for wisdom. I’ve always thought wisdom and the knowledge that...

I’ve been living in the Land of the Sick—and I’m ready to move.  To begin with, I’m sick with some kind of non-Covid throat infection,...

Most people are familiar with Robert Frost’s poetry and particularly his most famous, “The Road Not Taken.”  When I was in high school I...

As Dillard describes it, caterpillar moths like to line up behind a lead caterpillar whose role it is to seek out pine needles, a primary...

Covid, according to the latest from the scientific community, won’t die down until next year some time. The summer wildfires in our...

“The jackal went streaking past me while I held the irrigation pipe!” Christopher Robin told me, as wide-eyed and innocent as the...

Recently, both the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, unlike other colleges who’ve gone online, are dealing with...

What can I say?  Last summer at this time I was reading a prize-winning book about brain chemistry, and this summer I’m into fat and...

It was a family mystery I attempted to solve several years ago when I visited ninety-five year old Uncle Clay.  Clay was the only one...

Today, alcoholism is classified as a disease, and a certain segment of alcoholics prefer to manage their addiction as opposed to fully...

The Flannel Graph board was mounted on an easel, and as Sister Gibson recounted the Bible story, she’d press paper cut-out Bible figures...

Circle the wagons!  We’re in retreat!  This wagon (me) has been circling and circling my living room the past couple weeks, building...

“What’s with people hoarding toilet paper?” my daughter asked me over the phone. She’d called to check up on her dad. “I’m not sure. ...

Before the coronavirus raised its ugly head and scared everyone away from the city, I lived there part-time while I taught at a local...