Grace Notes: Have kick
I dream chemo all night. My father has lung cancer: these five words look strange to me in black and white. This is brand new. My mother, my siblings and I try to absorb the […]
Grace Notes
Grace Notes: Hospice house and light
The one story house, low slung across a lot longer than it is deep, was built by Joseph Eichler, an architect of the 1950’s. It’s surrounded by other Eichler’s on a street named after a […]
Grace Notes: Remember who you're running for
The plum trees are bloom-heavy; I can almost hear them sigh with their new weight, their pink swag. Errant petals fill the parking lot gutters and dot the windshields of cars sitting all day in […]
Grace Notes: An old dog
He spent the first year of his life tied up in a feed lot; his young owners had no time for him and he wasn’t allowed in the house. When Kathy, from Border Collie Rescue, […]
Grace Notes: Jumping Jack Flash
This column is about the Rolling Stones and my neighbor Larry in his yellow snow slicker. It’s not about politics. Really. The day dawned, and I was filled with focus and good intention. I moved […]
Grace Notes – New Year's gift
It is crackling cold — icicles days old, no melt in sight, snow dry as sand, streets like rinks. All day you try to walk carefully, carefully, precisely and balanced like a big-horned sheep. But […]
Grace Notes – Coyotes on the upper prairie
The wind is shuddering across the spine of every rooftop. The hollow sound of it gets stuck in air vents, like bass-voiced ghosts trying to get in until, bored, they unhook, free themselves, fly on. […]
Grace Notes: Take stock and give yourself some time to breathe
Reel backward through your memories and picture this: You are 10 and it is your turn to collect the playground equipment. You get to ignore the bell, stay out in the sun, gather all the […]
