what would be a better 11am on a rainy day than to smell chocolate-chip cookies being pulled from an oven   one chewy, chocolatey, melty...

Caretaker wife dies of rare mouse-borne disease             he, with Alzheimer’s, stumbles around another week and dies             dog...

my spice drawer is always a visit to the lost and found   sense of order, long gone the logic of chaos imprints on my spinning eyes  ...