One year ago today I was anxiously waiting to feel a cough rise in my chest. I had flown home a few days earlier from a week in Atlanta, and I became more…

What did you want to be when you grew up when you were ten or eleven years old? For me, that was long after the days dreaming of being a ballerina princess. I’m…

There is a bike path that runs underneath the turnpike, out in farm country. When you notice it from the highway, it seems like the trail is in the middle of nowhere.  It’s…

My dog is no longer scared of snowmen. The first winter we were together, on a routine evening walk, he was suddenly on high alert. Growling at the darkness, wary to walk any…