My name is S. Godfree and I am an addict. That’s not completely true – I can usually control myself and not actively pursue my guilty weakness, but every now and again, I’m in a place where it’s easily attainable, and most frighteningly, free. To make matters worse, we recently had a couple [...]
There was some packing going on at our place the other day.
Cats don’t like packing.
They know what it means.
But wait! What’s that you say? One last bit of in-town fun before we go? Who could say no?
Not these two.
And quelle surprise! Out-of-towners, out on the town, fresh back from some time [...]
Dear Ethicist:
I have this friend who’s a ghostwriter. She’s been asked to do a book for a potential client, and is feeling really torn. The job would pay a lot, and it would take only a short time — just three months or so. The potential client has done a few books in the past, [...]
There are places in Northern California where 270′ tall trees comb ocean breezes heavy with seawater and the smell of kelp. I hike through a short canyon where rivulets of spring water shower down mossy stone walls and collect in a glassy stream, which in turn reflects the fern embanked walls and a cerulean [...]
Listen,
all creeping things -
the bell of transience.
- Issa
It was not wise to go back. You could have warned me. But he wanted to know how to care for the grapevine. And potted plants had been placed on the stoop. That was reassurance.
I could not assume the new people would take up the [...]