I am thankful for the desk separating me from the mob of anxious case managers, each motivated by their own caseload of frustrated clien...

"When Gabriel was alive, did you ever think he might be one of those cases that lives for months, or years?" I did.  I prayed, a...

Maybe, if I lay very still. . . But it's too late.  Eden has already heard Marcos downstairs, and she's taken this as her sign...

   V      Here we go round the prickly pear     Prickly pear prickly pear     Here we go round the prickly pear     At five o'clock in...

I didn't process what had happened for a few seconds.  I had turned away for just a few seconds, and when I looked back, Willie was look...

In our backyard in Bakersfield the morning sun was already baking our lawn, but in Oregon the sky was overcast and the air was wet but c...

The blueberry bush sits dry and likely, dead, but still a part of my home amid the greenery in my front yard.  It seems like watering it whe...