As usual, we spent most of the class going over the homework and arguing about it, in a variety of… Read more rude French

One year a teaching colleague and I went over to the home of another colleague, recently widowed, and we put… Read more busy

Here I am, an elderly parent. That is to say, I am widowed, live in a house that’s too big… Read more no worry

Every Saturday morning, Lunchmoney Lewis’s “Bills” starts playing in my head, because it’s time to sit down and face reality.… Read more worry worry

I have been reading the mystery novels of the late Jane Haddam, novels that are good in their very idiosyncratic… Read more fictional

The current occupant of the household cat position is Louie, a barrel-chested, short-tailed, black-and-gray tabby cat with large, clear, deceptively… Read more prey