It's a brilliant sunny day with spring snow glistening off the trees. Despite the cold, I am filled with optimism for the future.
The core of this good feeling is partly the seasonal...
It's a mild rainy Monday evening at my sister Lili's house in upstate New York. I've been here for 4 1/2 weeks helping and watching her transition into death.
We ensconced her on...
It's early evening and dark. It's been dark since the afternoon on this cloudy day. I suddenly realized that it's not only the early nights, it's darker all day at this time...
It's a beautiful midday just before the summer solstice and I am exhausted. I make myself a cup of plain cocoa and water, my version of black coffee, and prepare to write. ...
It's a brisk spring dawn. The flowers in my sister's garden in upstate New York are starting to poke through the winter-weary earth. Everyone in the house is still asleep. I sip...
It's a grey, chilly Wednesday morning from the kitchen window at the clinic where Felix and I now live. Beams of sunlight break through the clouds to brighten the day. A squirrel...