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  • In a doctor’s waiting room the other day, I watched a tall man walk in, a good-looking man with gray hair and a carefully-tended comb-over. My first…
  • I am late getting home from class and my husband has already started supper. As we drink a beer at the kitchen table, I hear a lid rattling on the stove.…
  • Finally, Bonnie invites me to spend a week at her family cottage, the cottage she’s been telling me about all during eighth grade. Every day we will go swimming, she says, and sit on the dock and wait for boys to pick us up in their speedboats.
  • My mother and her mother spent much of their lives in the kitchen—where they prepared food, served meals, and washed dishes. And always, always, they were…
  • “I have to get up at some ungodly hour,” I say, describing a flight I need to catch.It’s only later that I wonder about that phrase. What could an…
  • On a morning in late spring, my husband and I canoe a section of the Manistee River. Close to shore a merganser duck is swimming with ten ducklings in a…
  • Most obituaries are rather similar—idealized portraits full of memories and tributes and good deeds. But occasionally I read something original and…
  • “Maybe I wasn’t the greatest mom,” I say, “but I must have done a few things right.”“None,” my daughter says, grinning. We are sitting at the kitchen…
  • I grew up with a very frugal father. Having lived through the Great Depression, he had a “cash and carry” philosophy. This meant you paid cash for…
  • Years ago I worked with a woman I’ll call Janet. She often arrived late, full of apologies and excuses. Her car wouldn’t start, the dog got away, her kids…