Five of us were in the company elevator heading ultimately for the 11th floor. The two men were talking about the coming weekend’s golf...

Mary and I flattened ourselves against the institutional green tiled wall and extended a small mirror on a metal stick around the corner....

Jeannie was a sweet, somewhat frumpy woman who worked at AGA’s third-rate art department. When the art director Jack flew into a tirade,...

The other day I was due to be at a doctor’s office for tests earlier than usual and ended up at Virginia Hospital Center three buildings...

I’m squirming so much in my seat I’m surprised the teacher hasn’t asked me if I’ve got ants in my pants. I’m in eight grade English class...

My mother lived with Perry and me for the last four months of her life. She was dying of cirrhosis of the liver. The first month or so...

I heard a box drop onto the front porch and looked out the front door to see what it was. It seemed innocuous but I knew what was inside....

Many times in my childhood, we were reduced to splashing around in a blown up wading pool. My brother Jake recently told me a story that...

As what was left of Xerxes’ hair hit the floor, little did he know this would transform his life. He went from being an attractive black...

Many apologies for my absence over the last three weeks. I had a knee replacement two weeks ago and have only just emerged from the fog...

I was freelancing, writing, and managing a range of marketing projects, from brochures to annual reports and other such company projects....

Elizabeth, Perry and Philippe on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. We met our French friends, Elizabeth and Philippe,...

My mother could be generous of spirit, funny and kind. Her alter ego, especially as she aged, was a narcissistic curmudgeon, a...

Perry and I bought a very modern ceiling fan for our living room. A pair of electricians came by to install it. They spoke not a word of...

"Now let's see. Dollywood or Nashville, which should it be?

I always thought Joe was kind, funny and smart. Granted he was no beauty; these other factors surely overrode his looks, didn’t they? I,...

Looking back, my dating career can only be described as, well, checkered. Sure, there were some good guys along the way, but there were...

I looked in the mirror and singled out a gray strand amongst my full head of glossy brown hair. I pulled it, wincing, not because it hurt...

We bought our house in Arlington, Virginia, in 1986, a cottage with a lovely front porch. The previous owners disliked the house and...

Derek was American but had been raised until his teens in England. This gave him a certain panache along with a slight English accent....