Capturing time — She stands positioned at a right angle in front of a draping wall of bright red and pink bougainvillea, her head tilting away from the camera as if ducking the shot. She wears a white taffeta holiday dress with a red satin ribbon tied at the waste. The dress is…

Grandma’s Historical Menstrual Tour — My 6-year-old granddaughter Josie wants to be ten. My response is: “Six is a great age.” She doesn’t buy it; she wants to be ten. “I’m ten,” she tells me, holding up her fingers. “What about six, seven, eight, nine? …

Injured and alone on Thunder Mountain — “Help! Come back,” I yell, hoping my husband will hear me. We’ve been hiking for only an hour in Sedona, and I rolled my ankle on a slippery rock. My hiking shoes have lost their thread and ability to grip the terrain, probably from all the mud stuck inside the…

Collective Reading Launch Four — Welcome back to our collective reading group. We have our travel itinerary below. Just remember a few things with this Reading Community — you must read. Some of you are not reading. Not good. This only works if you reciprocate. Here’s the spiel again: Read the articles; try not to…

My Story from Rags to Riches — About me: The first thing they usually look at is my teeth, and mine are pretty gnarly. You see, I got terrible teeth from chewing on the 24 x 24 x 24 metal pen I eventually escaped from in Lock Haven, Inglewood. This, in fact, is my earliest memory. Don’t remember much…

Google says its a matter of time — I’ve had pain in the right side of my face for five days, and it’s only gotten worse. What complicated matters was that I was in Arizona when I came down with the symptoms. My doctor, Dr. Useless, said she could not help me because I was in California. No…