No Picture

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 […]

No Picture

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, […]

No Picture

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 […]

No Picture

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 […]