My response to an email from a dating website to which I do not belong with the subject “Your soulmate can’t find you” and inquiry, “If your free profile is gone, how can the Universe deliver them to you?”: The…

I found myself recently at a right-wing, conservative, Republican rally in the South. Me, long-time resident of liberal Massachusetts who believes in peace and spiritualism and independent thinking in a group of people who will vote for a candidate based…

A friend of mine and I decide to go to a local restaurant. It’s a weekend night and there’s a wait. We leave his name at the door, walk around the corner of the building, and pull ourselves up to…

During our first Halloween living together on a military base my then-husband and I hadn’t planned on celebrating or giving out candy, but when I saw the dozens of children parading around the neighborhood in costumes I felt guilty and…

A middle-aged man with bronzed tan and gray-blue eyes came into the bookstore one day just to hear the song I was playing by a local band. He stayed long enough to make a purchase. “Are you in the frequent…