“Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed. “I’m a very average person,” she said desperately, somehow detecting that Charlotte already knew that, knew the deep, dark, wildly obvious secret of that, and how it made Sidra slightly pathetic, […]

It started out daintily enough and turned into sybaritic debauch. In other words, it was my kind of party. There I was, watering the flowers. A fine spray of mist arched out onto the drooping fern, soaking the flowering oxalis. Suddenly my daydreams were interrupted by the arrival of a hummingbird in search of ablutions […]

On my way to the grocery store yesterday I noticed a small red spider hanging in the crack between the driver’s side window frame and the window. I wasn’t surprised to see him. My car is the kind that is conducive to spider inhabitation (and fruit leather wrappers, junk mail, dog hair, old gym towel […]

On my way to the grocery store yesterday I noticed a small red spider hanging in the crack between the driver’s side window frame and the window. I wasn’t surprised to see him. My car is the kind that is conducive to spider inhabitation (and fruit leather wrappers, junk mail, dog hair, old gym towel […]