Tomorrow my sister and I have an unusual appointment. Together we’re going to order a headstone for our paternal grandparents, Robert and Clara, who died back in the 1940s. They died before either of us was born and for whatever reason, unlike my mother’s family, we didn’t know much about […]

“Looks like I’ve got everything I wanted to get.”  My friend closed the car trunk filled with a few remnants of her parents’ lives. She sighed as she said her good-byes. She’d inherited this place and over the years it had been good. Now it was a little too far […]

Once again I was in Dallas for summer school and our class was following a hand drawn map to visit a community center. A small wavy line marked the Trinity River, but in my three summers I had yet to see a drop of rain. I was curious what a […]