Grandpa Larry’s Portrait of the Flu

Hello, dear readers. Here is a short piece I wrote sometime in the not too distant past, after spending ten days alone, suffering with the flu. I call it: PORTRAIT OF THE FLU. Perhaps you have felt this way before, too. In the middle of my life is a small hill, a grassy knoll where […]

You Have to Believe in Spring

Ordinarily, this time of year, having endured a few months of cold, cold winter, all I can think of is spring and its radiant, fluorescent greens, the delightful, sunny, flannel-shirt days to come in the yard and garden, and the long brisk walks in the morning that I have missed so much. But this year, […]