The writing of Quarto of the Moon and the Calamity of 2020 began in the spring of 2020 when I heard the History Center in Woodstock,...

It’s day one of spring hatching on our magic pond and she’s oozing water above a depth of ice. They say you can ski across her cracked...

I think of these intrepids as I lay awake under a crescent moon, calm, confident of a disease-free, sneeze-free winter.

Silence here at our Moon, head down, hood up, we savor the hush when partisan winds roar in the zodiac.

Winter is icumen in, indeedy and our coal-black cat creeps to the fringe of the forest night, tasting the air. This winter smacks of...

Josh agrees it’s a land of polarities with hidden pockets of intellect, bawdy humor, beauty, and beastliness. It’s always been on edge and

The atmosphere in this pressure-cooker scullery not only simmers, it intensifies to a boil, and notably Sing during one routine summer-lunch

Our eyes lightly trip one another...and we decide on personal dramas of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It’s the Sixties after all.

With sudden realization, he dashes to close the open window, sputtering deep belly-laughs through his tight smile while he exhales clouds of

That’s when Zeus makes his ancient opinion quite clear, throws a lightning bolt from the cloudless sky, jolting our heady conversation

Pathetic and real and eternal, it seems intrinsically necessary to remember—and to communicate before it is too late.

just married a few months before, now on this extended journey one might call a honeymoon, except we did not know if we were ever going back

Love doesn’t come knocking on your door. It doesn’t come in the mail. Love carefully and quietly seduces your mind, body, and soul. It may

...and watching other couples cook together we discover that if you really want to understand a couple's relationship, just watch them....

It may be conscious or unconscious, half real, half dramatized, and for each of us, each day is the choice to drink our life half-full or ha

The Ricotta Diaries is about life in our sensual food-related world. It is music in the background, coming forward in your fast think,...