The Peaceable is the yellow house behind THND. I have lived only yards away for eight years, but I had never been inside the house nex...

Breathless, Alberto came to the door this afternoon. "Priests," he said. "Seminarians, young, in black soutanes. From Can...

Sometimes, everything just falls my way. The climb was everything I had hoped, and maybe more. No injuries, just sunshine, cool breezes, an...

I was kissed for the first time by a boy in July. (His name was Jeff Smith. Up on a roof under a fig tree, in Izmir, Turkey. Just after four...

A trip to Barcelona, good friends who volunteered to watch the Peaceable so we could get away, some more good friends who stepped in when th...

Hounds howl in the shaggy dark barn a meter of adobe away from my pillow. Daylight through the blinds. Time to get up. Paddy hears my footfa...

Today is June 7. June means lush early summer, seeing which of the seeds planted out back might actually live. It means clear blue skies...