After something sudden and violent happens to the body, it switches to autopilot. You're still you, but at the same time, not. A piece of...

I lead them into the third room. Second from the back, not the best space but they only give that one to larger groups anyway. We...

My sister used to tell me she hated me for my hair. She wanted her wavy, frizzy hair to grow stick-straight like mine, to be left alone...

“Log log log! Ladies who log regularly are more aware of what’s going on down there.” It has been 96 days since my last period, a record....

The polar bear stayed underwater all day. After all, it was too hot for him most of the time. Polar bears don’t usually live in New...

It’s almost my birthday. I realize I’ve been waiting for more than half a century to get better, to get smarter, to get happier. That’s...

I step into the hallway, bare feet touching cold tile. I try to ignore the cobwebs dangling in corners where the low ceilings and walls...

Mice no longer run in a panic looking over their furry shoulders, there is no need, the cats have died and no replacement has been made....

“It’s okay! I’m right here!” Lynn says. Her five-year-old daughter June whimpers. June has float wings on, but she keeps eyeing the...

I invited my neighbor Miss T. out to dinner for her 100th birthday. “Anyplace you want to go,” I said. Tiny and trim, surely under a...

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed. When it’s raining, we jump from Theodore’s bed to the folding chair, but it’s a long way and...

Today is both ordinary and singular, for it is a Saturday in August in the midst of a pandemic, and I’m alone in Vermont. When I say...