My mother is 89. Two years ago, she moved in with me. Each morning I hear her getting up at around 7:30 AM. She then baby talks to and feeds the 23 year old cat. Afterward, she makes herself breakfast and sits in the sunroom drinking coffee until she comes to her senses. Then she […]

He left this world in a place far from home, and for more than a century, his story nearly vanished into the silence of an unfamiliar earth. In 1892, the Oglala Lakota Chief Long Wolf, who once rode with Buffalo Bill’s grand spectacle of the American West, succumbed to pneumonia in the damp chill of […]

Today it happened. Today was the day. Had a little time. Force my mom had to be at an appointment so we stopped in a thrift along the way. It’s a local store that supports the surrounding community. The price was 50 cents and it was written on the side with sharpie. It was dirty, […]

Barbara Sinatra: “We were at a dinner party one night with Bennett Cerf and Betty Bacall when Frank wandered into a guest room to collect a pack of cigarettes from his overcoat. There he found the producer Arthur Hornblow finishing up a telephone call to a woman. ‘I hope she’s pretty,’ Frank said softly. Arthur […]

My grandmother took my two brothers and me to live with her at 5, 4, and 1 years old, and she was 73. I was the oldest and only girl at 5 years. One day after church, my grandmother took us to lunch. She turned and asked if she bought me a piano would I […]