If you’re considering giving away Population 485 for World Book Night but don’t know who might be interested, I ask: Know anyone with a tattoo? Who likes dogs? Specifically, beagles?…View post

Sometime back in the 1990s I scuffed my knuckles getting it out of grandma’s basement. I remember clambering on it at Christmas when I was a tot. Now I share…View post

What I like about reviews like this is the word gets out to some eyes in places I may not get to myself. Plus you know there are Toms (and…View post

Snowflakes falling through sunlight. Puts me at age five, reading in the farmhouse, pausing to watch dust motes cross a sunbeam.

To my children they are aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors, family. Overlooking my desk, a framed slip of paper carried by my grandfather on Iwo Jima. Thank you, and…View post