I believe the whole “grow where you’re planted” thing is just an uplifting idiom created to make people feel better about where they are living; an encouraging affirmation to make us accept where we are instead of where we would like to be. Because of employment, family obligation, or some innate nomadic gene, we move…

Featured prominently in my novel, Solitary Refinement, is Snaggletooth, bedraggled mongrel and beloved dog of our protagonist, Angela Morgan. While everyone in the exclusive little hamlet of Bryn Mawr is purchasing designer dogs for an incalculable amount of money, Angela adopts Snaggletooth, a hard luck case from the Humane Society. She is constantly at odds…

Memorial Day weekend began by looking for an old photograph. Sounds simple enough, but one box led to another until I was up to my knees in photos, slides, and reels of old film. Having already populated the pages of a dozen photo albums, I thought that I’d found what I was looking for. I…