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I Capture the Castle
The title of this post is from the marvelous book by Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle. The story is dreamy and funny and shimmers like a crystal bowl in a shaft of…
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This I Shall Tell You
Recently I changed my name back to my maiden one. When I went to the social security office, the clerk glanced down at my divorce decree, quickly looked up at me and asked, “What took you so…
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Victoria
I miss Victoria most in November. Victoria was that marvelous, warm, happy periodical that published from 1987 to 2002. The November issues are the warmest and coziest. Or perhaps I believe so because…
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She’s a Butterfly! “Pretty as a crimson sky…” I raised her all on my own. Now she is whole and ready to fly…daughter o’ mine is in graduate school and studying hard. She…