Category Archives: Essays

At first a slight movement, a quick dart. Something shifts the stillness between the stationary objects – the open shower door, the rotary crank on the window frame, the bath mat, a pail, a toilet. A trick of the eye? I turn to face the corner from where it originates – the corner below theContinue reading “There’s a Gecko in the Bathroom”

For the past several weeks, isolation has been all the rage. I work remotely. I make coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon. I listen to the PBS news in the evenings, make myself light suppers. I choose a book to read, a thought to write, a language to learn, a show toContinue reading “An Extrovert’s Exercise”

I’m swinging in a patio recliner gently rocking back and forth with my bare feet. The screened-in patio, in Florida known as a lanai, faces the lane, one of many quiet one-lane asphalted roads that wind around and up and down a semi retirement community in Riverside, Florida. Occasionally a member of the association drivesContinue reading “A Semi-retired Kind of Life”