Reading Around

What a blessing are the seasons.Summer rainsSwift pourOver as it begins.Whispering into trees and plants.Smelling like honeydew on its [...]

Saffron Cutler and her boyfriend, Tom, have just moved into a cottage that once belonged to her grandmother, Rose. With the couple [...]

“Au fond,” as Mary Rodgers might say, she was about as shy as Princess Winifred= NOT. (Once Upon a Mattress) Daughter of musical [...]

For New Yorkers who were in the city on that beautiful fall day, September 11, 2001, the events that transpired are seared into their [...]

The old tree stood marked with two great slashes of an orange X. Insect- riddled and storm torn, sucha lean to it that leaves trailed [...]

In the summer yard, the roof of skyis a blue you’ve waited for, with nothing shyabout clouds of flowers heady with scentthat could make [...]

Bennedith, age 45, a Swedish writer, arrives in a sweltering Madrid to begin a writer’s grant. After settling into the two-bedroom [...]

Summer envelops like a light cloth across ones shouldersWaiting for the earth to bloomTime is slow, even and nowand everything is out and [...]