In his retirement, Pops buys and fixes watches for resale. He frequents the pawn shops of Rosslyn, Virginia, at the foot of Key Bridge,...

Early every Sunday morning, my maternal grandfather, Hjalmar Eclov, beetles down our down our dirt driveway in his elderly Volvo and...

Everyone is excited when my mother gets us a mid-sized black standard poodle, officially registered as ‘Shirley’s Folly’ because she...

My first dog is a beautiful black and tan Pekingese. My mother got me one because she had a beloved Peke growing up and had a love affair...

I am walking aimlessly down 78th Street one sizzling summer day when Earl and another man turn the corner from Earl’s house on Woodrow...

On the surface, Earl Huntington is a jovial man. He is married to Dolly and has two sons, Reb and Jimmy. Earl is a small man. . .

We live in a big two-story stucco house with a wide, white front porch on a service road just below MacArthur Blvd. It was built by Mr....

Thousands of people have passed through Cabin John, Maryland, without ever knowing it, on the way to somewhere else.

The Potomac River is sliding smoothly past me, its seemingly placid surface hiding the turbulence below.