My daughter-in-law thought a text message could justify leaving my grandson unsupervised at the airport.

longest-standing friend, who phoned me in tears to share that she had presented Cecille with that very volume sixty years ago during a gathering where both women had worn inappropriate footwear for dancing.

I put tulip bulbs into the ground beside the northern wall, arranging them in the pattern Cecille had sketched out in pencil on a writing desk memo continue reading …