Doug with Eldridge, the man who "didn't like cats"

Doug said he didn’t like Shakespeare: “too difficult”. Yet, he quoted Macbeth as he remembered reading every work of Faulkner when he was serving his country in Taiwan in 1967. “…a tale told by an idiot, full

Mary with new wheels for her birthday, March 5, 1946

My mother loved to read and to drive fast. When she crashed her car into the handicapped elevator at the back of the library, she didn’t

Aren’t we loads of those we have lost? Take the word, loads. Every birthday card from Aunt Mary, the invalid next door, was signed, loads. I have been sending her loads ever since I learned to write my name. Here she is in the center of the picture before she became/

I don’t have a photo of Inez but every time I see kelp and seaweed, I look again because of Inez. I had watched her sketching the kelp, holding her pencil like a claw, her art opening despite her arthritic fingers. Her smile was huge, scalloped like the/