Something is disappearing from American life. Not dramatically. Quietly. The corner bookstore. The neighborhood barbershop. The diner where three generations of the same family knew which booth was theirs. The places where people gathered without being watched, talked without being tracked, and built the kind of trust that no algorithm can manufacture. Ray Oldenburg called […]

Culled from nearly half a century, from youth to the verge of age, these poems vary in form and voice as fits the range of heart and terrain, from first cry to barroom shout…through whispered memory and wind sigh, while puzzlement and wonder mix with politics of faith and fate amidst the flux of our […]

A novel of a little alteration shop on a Scottish Loch. Forty garments. Forty unfinished stories. And one dress that has been waiting for forty years. When Tess Marsh loses the job she thought would define her future, the last thing she expects is to inherit an alterations shop from a grandmother she barely knew […]

A sharp, funny, and sisterhood-fueled story about a woman who dispensed wisdom to the world, and then had to find some of her own. Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist ‘Dear Calpurnia’, has insight into everybody’s problems, except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to […]