When Papa Phelps, our school principal, announced that the bubonic plague had reached our hill-top town, I was twelve years old and the year was 1939. We boarding-school kids knew nothing about the … [Read more...] about My First Pandemic
My Lincoln Squirrel
I met Eric in April. He was lying next to the stone wall in front of Bank of America, crippled legs skewed. My heart sank. Another boy in trouble. I walk to the post office for … [Read more...] about My Lincoln Squirrel