ALISON BAKER

 

One evening a couple of weeks before Christmas, I stepped out onto my back porch. It was one of those warmish, clear nights, and when I looked up at the sky I saw, almost directly above my chimney, a very bright object. With my trifocals I had trouble bringing it into focus, but now and then I saw it clearly enough to confirm my hunch that the bright object was the International Space Station. Read More 

Big changes in your life make...big changes. When My Companion died recently, we weren't taken by surprise; he was old, he had a heart condition and a lung condition, and in the last couple of years he'd gotten pretty frail. But we were taken by surprise. It was too soon, too fast, and too definitive. Read More 

Once upon a time, when I was a Young Person, I had the opportunity to see Bruce Springsteen on one of his first tours.  Read More 

Starting to write an essay, or a poem, or a short story, is like going shopping with the whole world as your marketplace. Read More