My life is filled with fantasies, and every so often I pinch myself over the sheer poetry of what comes to pass—how the universe never fails to send me what I need to get me through the night. Losing my beloved dog earlier this month had put me in an emotional place, one in which I’ve been feeling sad, vulnerable, …
Barbados Holiday
The most elaborate family vacations I took as kid were a spate of annual motor trips in the mid sixties. The four of us would drive down to Florida for the Christmas holidays, my sister and I killing each other in the backseat of our 1959 Chrysler, as my parents squabbled upfront over the OML’s triptych directions. It was a …