Musings & Meanderings

A week ago Saturday I stood in the meeting house of a Shaker village. The building is acoustically perfect. After the crowd had lef...

The aunt is putting Sunday dinner on the table. We are waiting for her to sit down so we can all eat. She sets the platter of fried chicken ...

She was 6 or 7. It is early summer and she's back at the farm with her sister. She is standing in the middle of the dining room/sitting ...