Sometimes it seems as if there’s nowhere we can turn for truthfulness or honesty. Which makes the notion of banned books for children all the more disgusting.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if the time has changed and we have fallen backwards, if evening dusk comes an hour or two sooner, if the skies seem clearer, […]

I know the French are whiners and they’re cold and snotty and that Spanish is the language du jour to learn. Yet I continue.

I like to read the reactions and reviews of people who are not in the business. Ordinary people.

People can rave all they want about Savannah’s live oak trees, downtown squares, 19th-century housing stock, dramatic tides, pleasant winter weather conditions and number of festivals, including the outstanding March […]

Everything is fair game. I’ve seen people try to dig up some of my own plants in this garden. Well, maybe it’s their first time.

These are amazing beasts. They can take a lot of abuse. There’s nothing they don’t know or can’t do. Maybe I could slide through. Wrong.

What sun? What moon? In my first 10 days of a sabbatical in Pittsburgh, I never saw the sun, let alone the moon.

Last night during a class on “Shape Changers,” writers who introduced the autobiographical into the nonfiction form of writing, we considered closing the windows so we could hear one another […]

There will be directions to follow, name in the upper right hand corner and all that. There will be rusty brain cells. There will be grades.

I’m a little paranoid about my new – 1996 – Taurus station wagon. Nothing’s wrong. She’s driving great. She only has 35,000 miles under her belt. But I want to […]

I’m a survival-of-the-fittest type person, not an emergency room attendant.