Tonight

Tonight I had news from home that will not let me sleep unless I write. My friend is a student, in a class where she is a one-woman ethnic minority. She loves this college, where she has worked for over a year. She loves the diversity, the dialogue, the honesty, the vibe. She feels like…

How to get old (by someone who isn’t yet)

One evening recently, I dropped in on my beautiful grandmother for a 6 o’clock G & T. We had just poured the drinks when the phone rang. Her very dear friend of over fifty years had just passed away. Being ninety-one, she gets a lot of these calls lately. We drank a small ginny toast,…

Proof and silliness

Carl Sagan, the world-renowned astronomer and science fiction writer, said he would be more inclined to believe in God if he had slipped a few more clues into the Bible about science. Something perhaps about the theory of relativity, just so we’d know he really was behind it. Here's how I think that would go.…