People You Know By Heart

  —IF WE BOTH WERE BORN, IN ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME, THIS MOMENT MIGHT BE ENDING WITH A KISS     The Vocabulary of Water   At the mouth of th...

  —WELL I’M JUST WAKING UP AND I’M NOT THINKING CLEARLY SO DON’T QUOTE ME     In Sunshine or Shade     For the first time since dying  Lucy ...

—HEY, KIDS, SHAKE IT LOOSE TOGETHER     …The birds must think I’m crazy, pacing the kitchen island like I do each morning, so many hours bef...

—MONDAY, MONDAY, SO GOOD TO ME       …Hey you, Rabbit, Rabbit.   …My biggest hero? I’d probably say Tracy Pollan. Yep. For sure.   …I could ...

  —SOMETIMES YOU CAN’T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN     …Yesterday was a good day to be alive, and today is, too.    --Tigger: “How do you spell that...

  —DRUNKEN ANGEL WHISPERS IN MY EAR     Butchered             I am nine or ten the first time I watch my mother hack a chicken’s head off, b...

  —SOMETIMES IT TAKES THAT LONG TO GET A SONG RIGHT         …“ I realized early in my adult life that talking—real, honest, substantive conv...