Recently, I have been the frequent, unwilling viewer of an interesting advertisement. In short, the advertisement begins by presenting the modern catastrophe

It happened again. An important email never made its way to me because, en route to my cluttered inbox, it took an

The petals were dusty yellow and flecked with white. They emerged with timid strength from a nearly invisible crack in the blacktop

Many of my deepest childhood memories are the timeless ones about family traditions, school events, summer vacations, late 1970s fashions, my cat,