Category : Main Course

On a breezy April afternoon years ago, I visited my daughter in her tiny first apartment overlooking the park. She had just started her new...

Our neighbor Frank came over last Saturday evening, just as the wind began to pick up and the sky turned that soft gray you only...

Last winter, a close friend came to visit after nearly a decade overseas. We had taught together for years, side by side in a small-town...

It had rained hard the night before, and the air still carried that earthy scent only a good storm leaves behind. My neighbor, Bill—a retired...

A few months ago, my husband and I welcomed a guest we hadn’t seen in nearly two decades—my husband’s college roommate, Martin. He had been...

The rain hadn’t let up since early morning, and our little backyard celebration was starting to feel like a washout. My husband had just finished...