Isle Storm

Early today, this shell appeared on the beach. It had not been there long enough to be collected. The shell's beauty, as it becomes lace...

Casting a big shadow on my first communion. Becoming a "bride of Christ" with my Catholic first communion at age seven was a joyou...

I didn't realize how much I was missing Marvelous Mel Eaton until my dump run down the Quaco Road Wednesday morning. Melvin was only 65,...

  White Americans -- particularly those of us who are or who grew up working class and poor -- are very often fatalists. For centuries those...

  Evert Hjalmer Nelson, my dad, at left with his mother Signe in 1959 as she was about to set sail for a visit home from the U.S. to her nat...