A Medical Miracle

For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were … More

Enlightenment

CAST Old McGann (MCGANN): A smart old cockroach who has learned all the survival techniques passed down over the last … More

There were no more good reasons I could come up with, no more desperate excuses I could dream up for … More

Today was a good walking day, 3.9 miles on my hill, harder going up, much easier coming down. Some days … More

For the life of me I couldn’t find my way back to my room, each minute another turned page in … More

It’s an old turntable with a speaker horn, the kind you wind up,what my grandmother used to call a Victrola,even … More

Even confined within these walls . . . If I am a painter living all alone on earth,painting for no … More

What it is important to forget all about is this wish, in what would be your classic bated moment, about … More

I’m hunting once more, roaming the mysterious interior,farther and farther into the forest of memory, the thicket of heart,traipsing around … More

You may have heard or read this morning’s news reportabout a man in China, kidnapped 24 years agoat the age … More

Now, you say, that, that was true knowledge, the kind unkind if the truth hurts you, a loved one, everyone, … More

Dig in. I would say “amen” as people commonly do at times like this, who practice it seriously, but to … More

It is 114 degrees, noon, and I step out onto Langdon, stealthy, my eyes darting everywhere, see someone coming, sit … More

One day you will write the best thing you ever wrote,you think, hope, each day your prayer, your mantra.For inspiration … More

These stone tablets grow row on row, symmetrically planted concrete flowers blooming in a precisely laid field as far as … More

The mechanic wipes his hands with a greasy cloth, says, Time breaks down the integrity of any vehicle,which one day … More

in the small hours, fingers interlocked behind my head, I search the hidden ceiling straining to see any star beyond, … More

My store is in a part of Chinatown that has so far avoided the magic wand of urban renewal. Take … More

the one with brown edges now, is the journeywork of a fading star, our cooling sun’s the one. Really in … More

I can’t remember when I stopped dreaming about flying. This recurred often, once a month or more. I would be … More