We are long-term.  We are new.  We hug with the intensity of a crackling fire.  We keep secrets forever, we are flint sparking stone.  We are girlfriends.
We’ve been girlfriends for two days, for forty years, or just since this morning in the check-out line.  Yes.  We are girlfriends.  We make no judgments.  We ask nothing [...]

A couple weeks ago, Wilson interviewed at our local Barnes & Noble bookstore to work in the children’s book area as a “Tail Waggin’ Tutor.”  His job was to snooze on the floor while children crawled over him and poked at his nose.  Actually, the children were supposed to read to Wilson.  The theory is [...]

It seems we’re in those dog days of summer when very little happens.  Over the past few days, I’ve started and stopped, posted and deleted at least three different blogs.  Failures … all of them!  Now here I am again at a blank screen.  I prefer this place.  A blank screen is comfortable.  There are [...]

If I were a paper doll, I’d be terrified of fire.  And water.  I’d be okay with fingers bending my elbows and knees, but I wouldn’t like being crumpled up in someone’s fist.  I’d want to be kept safe from chewing dogs, but a child’s smile would delight me.  I would be ridiculously slender.  In [...]