PINKERTON 1
TRADITION Should you happen to be driving through Derry, New Hampshire on 28 Bypass, you might notice what looks like a small well-groomed college campus. …
PINKERTON #2
WINDOW ON ROOM 70 It’s Period H at last. This huge high school campus pulses with adolescent energy as over 3000 teenagers trek from building …
COUNTRY ROADS TAKE ME HOME
(Part 2) “Almost Heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, blowing like …
PINKERTON #3
THE PORTABLES When I took the Special Ed job at Pinkerton, classroom space was at a premium. So Room 69 would be my home for …
SWALLOW THAT FROG
When my sister got a part time job in the Biology lab in her first year of college, she brought home literal frog legs which …
SUMMER EVENING IN ORLEAN VA
A drive up and down through thick green foothills, twists and turns as the sun lowers. Orlean Market and Restaurant. Crabcakes. Reubens. Genuine hand cut …
SOFTER WORDS
I’m in the Physical Therapy office waiting for my husband, who has misplaced his ever present coffee mug, the one that attaches to his hand …
GRANDDAUGHTER #3
This girl, this curly redheaded girl, is often a rock in a stormy sea. She calmly crochets fantastic animals for her friends. I stare in …
GRANDSON #2
Such a beautiful boy! A cuddler from the beginning. So many adventures we had. Remember romps at Robert Frost Farm? Picnics under Jimmy the apple …
GRANDSON #5
You came into our lives as somewhat as a bonus baby for me, some 20 plus years after my own last baby. I felt like …