The good news was that the newspaper he had ordered was right at his door as promised. The bad news was that he had forgotten to buy milk for his breakfast. So he dumped the cereal back into the box,...
That's the dilemma with family. When it comes to our parents, we're always children. At what point do we grow up? They raise us to function as individuals, but when do they allow us to act independent...
Thanks to the Betamax and Jason’s diligent collection of tapes, she’d even been able to rerun the shows she’d missed while in Haiti. It was her job, she reasoned. And now she’d blown it!
Some say life is a roller coaster. I see it as riding a wave. You're out there on your board and everything is calm— Excuse me, she broke in. You never surfed. I did, he insisted, all innocence. Well,...
She wasn’t supposed—to die until—we talked.
She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and...
She hated rain. It came at the worst times, defied prediction, and made life messy.
Putting an elbow on the drafting table and her chin in her palm, she simply looked at him. She wasn’t angry. To the contrary. She had her lips pressed together; she was clearly trying not to smile—and...
No, Jack Ramsey didn’t look like a spa person. He lifted weights. Tom couldn’t imagine him in an aerobics class, much less wrapped in seaweed.
It’s a girl! he cried, and stood there, not quite knowing what to do, until the others crowded around him, hugging him, hugging each other, laughing, crying, asking questions. A girl. Michael should h...
Is it? I asked. The past, over and done? Is it ever? Ever changed? No. Ever accepted? Yes. It becomes who you are. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Il l’emporta – il la transporta loin, vers un endroit où elle n’aurait jamais pu aller sans lui- mais, lorsque ce fut fini, le retour ne l’effraya pas. Leo semblait solide. Enraciné. Vrai.Ils restèren...
I understand Tom’s got a good business going now. Sheila nodded. Computers. He’s taught me a lot about them. They’re not really so bad. Oh, they don’t pick up the dirty laundry or do boring case repor...
I swear, the cats did know me. They came without pause,
How to describe what she felt as she stood at the head of an all-new cobblestone drive looking at the rebuilt facade of what had once been a weary old Cape? There was relief that the hard work was don...
Hope is the future lined in gold,
Her ticket to freedom lay in her lap. Ever an avid reader, Annie had escaped into books in recent months, when all else failed to calm her. As a friend, a book had advantages over the human variety. I...
Hellooo. The ferry captain shot a thumb at her Jeep. Gonna get it off ? Oh. She laughed. Sorry. Releasing Nicole, she ran back onto the ferry and slid behind the wheel. By the time she revved the engi...
Cinematographers couldn
Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.