A friend, Sara Aldrich, plans to publish her memoir soon about her marriage to her husband Pat. They got married the day after the...

Little acts of kindness are remembered. This story tells why I always give to those Salvation Army bell ringers at holiday time. It has...

Looking back on trips to warm places: Portofino A small fishing village caressed by villas of the rich and famous, Portofino is a seaside...

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I bought Far as the Eye Can See at a reading the author, Robert Bausch held, a chance to hear his story as an author and get a signed...

Carol was with Johnny all the time when he could get away on leave. Then he shipped out overseas. When Johnny drove Carol by the base,...

Imagine a world in which people live in information bubbles that echo what they believe and differing views are relegated to bubbles in...

Fortunately, Carol was not a shrinking violet. She always entered the room bubbly and eager to meet everyone. Being free and easy came...

For readers along the Delaware coast, I invite you to stop by a magazine rack and pick up a copy of the holiday issue of Delaware Beach...

I played the piano this morning with a new metronome. I seldom use one, but my piano coach advised it, recognizing my ragged sense of...

Jeffrey Eugenides wrote Middlesex over a decade ago and it remains one of my favorite novels. The slipcover tells you that it is ‘the...

In Rome, we dined in Flávio al Velavevodetto set into the mountain of pottery refuse from which the area of Testaccio draws its name....

Her hands were her best quality, no doubt about it. Everyone always said so. Ever since high school, everyone liked Carol’s hands. Long...

Have you noticed that books have keyword trends? Now it appears to be the word 'girl.' There is Gone Girl and the Girl on the Train. But,...

Renaissance palaces from the peak of power of a small republic, now museums of that age and office buildings for banks, the power elite...

Ellen said it when the plane approached Albuquerque, "It seems like another country." The land is foreign to Easterners like us where the...

Rob slowly walked up to the car. The top was down and neatly tucked into the tonneau cover. The interior was black, just like the one he...

The SUV took off. There was no conversation, but there was music. Cecil Junior punched the CD player and some country balladeer crooned....

Travel inspires the writer. I'm sharing passages from my notebook written while on the road. The first is from my most recent trip to...