His room doesn’t have a thermostat, but it feels like a balmy 78 degrees each time I knock on his door, tentatively cracking it open a slive...

Her face comes up on the screen and everything around me stops. My breath catches and the room goes silent if only in my consciousness, whic...

I thought about the bills I had tucked in my pocket. It was money I had considered saving ... or spending on pizza. I hadn't yet decided...

When Sesame Street’s Elmo took to social media last week to touch base with followers in his trademark third-person style – “Elmo is just ch...

Great Barrington has drawn national attention after an incident in early December in which police, acting on an anonymous tip and with the p...

  “Did you see what I sent you?” He’s usually sitting on the couch next to me as we divide our attention between three different screens and...

The unnamed roadways on the Island De Vieques pushed northward in steep elevation along the coastline, and I pushed myself up their pockmark...

  The temperature got warmer all of a sudden.  Up until that moment during the three-and-a-half-hour flight, the plane had felt drafty and f...

I know I wasn't hallucinating.   I had been under the influence of sedation, but I had concrete proof.  Five years ago, after my firs...

  Tomorrow we will sleep in. That's the plan, anyway. Tonight we are neither on guard nor on our best behavior. There will be at least f...

The house looks like it always does. There are mountains of clean laundry piled on chairs throughout the downstairs rooms waiting to be fold...

Who is that woman?  Her hair, frizzy and dry, was a tri-blend of color that needed … at the very least … a bit of attention.  She looked vag...