When I’d visited my mother two weeks before, I found her sitting in a chair in the dining room of her memory care home out in the Amish country of Hiram Ohio. She really looked quite beautiful, but she had always been beautiful to me. Her hair had been done, her blue eyes were large […]
Good Grief – Thursday, September 19, 2019 It’s a month to the day since my mother died. Although I know intellectually what has happened, I’m not sure what just happened. I saw her on August 4, 2019, a Sunday. I was in the area both to see her and attend a birthday party for my […]
Not a book excerpt yet, but a short story from my collection entitled Throwing Tarts at the King and Other Stories. This was written over twenty years ago in a writing workship while I attended the MA program in English at the University of Cincinnati. Loggerhead On the morning of their last day at the […]
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