We're lying in bed. We've been watching our show, having our usual late dinner, and the credit music is rolling and soon it's ti...

We're cleaning up after the electricians have finished working in the kitchen. I've just put a big piece of, I don't know, drywa...

I've popped downstairs to warm the two sips of coffee at the bottom of my cup. Pulling it from the microwave, closing the little door, I...

It's garbage day and I've dumped the recycling from the can to the bin, dumped the compost from the little kitchen container to the ...

I'm just pulling the garbage out of the can to get it ready to take it to the curb when my sister texts: "Hey mom and I are gonna h...

Lying in bed in the mostly dark listening to the occasional boom. This was, of course, a very different Fourth of July. Not devoid of firewo...

Ninety-one degrees, and my portable air conditioner is fighting the added heat of my second-floor, poorly insulated attic-turned-office at t...

Morning, and Stephen's head is in the doorway at the bottom of the stairs, talking up to me about last night's dream as I sit at my ...

Ten o'clockish on election night. We've listened to the commentaries and obsessed over the map and eaten a pan of French fries, know...

People are sharing pictures of the northern lights, again, on Facebook. I knew there was a possibility through some news story I popped into...

Late afternoon on a mild October day, Stephen and I are taking a walk. The trees we pass are green, then orange, then red, then green again....

Two in the morning at the emergency animal hospital is quiet. Not many people in the waiting area. There's the man with the Yorkie calle...

Early morning, outside with Nicholas, the air chilled and full of the sound of crows. I'm sitting in a chair while Nicholas wanders and ...

I come up the stairs with a cold glass of water to offer to my dog because he was just lapping at the very bottom of his. He's up on the...

It's night on the third of July and Nicholas and I are camped out in the upstairs bathroom with the door closed and the overhead fan on:...

Stephen and I are just back from getting our second covid shots. We have a few moments before I need to be off upstairs to get on Zoom for m...

Middle of the work day, me at my desk at home, typing away on my laptop. Checking my Outlook calendar for Zoom meetings. I click the "r...

Just off the phone with my mom, lounging on the bed with Nicholas, giving him a pet, I pick up my cell lying there. Scroll a little. Now the...

Quiet, I bend down and lift Nicholas out of his self-heating doggy bed and carry him through the dark morning house. Past the Christmas tree...

Early morning black and Stephen is snoring, quietly, but enough that it wakes me. I try to pretend for a while that I can ignore the rhythm ...