Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn’t that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that’s why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.
Who says you have to be the best anyway? My dad. Michael gave him a curious look. Is it because you’ve done time that you think you’re not as good as anybody else? Oh, I think I’m as good. Other peopl...
Where was the Cloud when she needed it? Oh, it was there. Only she hadn’t bothered to sign on for backup.
What about me, Peter? You can cook. You can clean. You can be waiting here for me when I get home. I’d think that would be enough. Well, it’s not!
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 turned the water on again, rinsed a dish, put it in the dishwasher. I know you didn’t have jewelry. She listened. Yes, Mother, other women would love what I have, but that’s not the point. The poi...
Sam snapped his fingers and crooked a finger his way. Get over here, Michael. This is your niece. Michael joined the group. His gait was slightly unsteady, though not because of any lingering effects...
Recalling Love Games, she returned to the present with a jolt and glanced at the set in time to find the show over for the day. She’d missed it!
Percodan. One every four hours for pain. P. Demery, M.D. So the directions read, and Ryan had no problem with them. What he did have problem with was the fact that the prescription was made out to an...
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.
Love was love.
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.
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...
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...
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...