Recently I walked through downtown Toronto with a new friend who was visiting from Cincinnati. A young man stopped me to ask, “What, in your…
Rue: (verb), to regret some act or course of action or fact about oneself and wish it undone or altered. After the recent U.S. election,…
If Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos, were to walk into your home and start looking around; if they rifled through your belongings, observed your habits,…
For those of us who lived through the seventies, we might want to take a collective moment and remember how dark that decade actually was….
Three other aspiring writers and I have been writing a short story a month for Elegant Literature Magazine since April. We’re given a prompt and…
Travelling with cell phones and a laptop has changed what it means to travel alone. On my recent trip, I had contact with family and…
For years I have had the intention to publish my mother’s diaries. That almost sounds like a really bitchy thing to do, doesn’t it? She…
When I was ten years old, my brother, who is ten years older than me, made a year-long excursion around the world. He picked up…
While on a jam-packed train from Narbonne to Montpellier I stood shoulder to shoulder with five rugby players who were visiting France on a long…
I am in France where I have a ‘base camp’ in a lovely three-story house in a medieval town nestled in the foothills of the…