C.K. Williams
Kim Addonizio
Jack Gilbert
W.B. Yeats
Martha McPhee
Ian McEwan
Taylor Caldwell
John Fowles
Susan Minot
Anne Tyler
Joni Mitchell
Dean Young
In late spring, I move out of Maureen and J.B.'s house. I find a studio apartment on the second floor of a house on Fourth Street. My floor of the building is nestled in the branches of two oak tr
A few weeks ago, my wireless connection stopped working. The router was "unavailable," or so the little red hat said in the tool bar on the lower edge of the screen. The little hat is gr
Back in Chico, Jack and I rent a house and fight in it. Jack isn't much of a fighter, but I can cause enough conflict for both of us. The central argument: money.
That night, after we went to bed, Jack found out how sick I really was. I woke up sweating, my head splitting with pain. Jack took my temperature, 104. He drove me to the hospital. There I fin
Jack and I decided to move to Santa Barbara. It was more my idea than his. It was completely my idea. I wanted to get back to my roots, the beach. I wanted a change. I wanted to stop working
About a year after I divorced my first husband, I met Jack. I was working in what was called a "fern bar" in Chico. La Salles was designed after Henry Africa's in San Francisco. Henry
We're moving toward the darkest day of the year. That's what I always think around this time, the second week of November. We're moving toward Thanksgiving, a holiday I used to dread like I dreade
Yesterday, I went for a six mile walk/run around the Lafayette Reservoir. It is such a beautiful, peaceful place, set between the rolling hills of the East Bay. I first started jogging around the
