“An older man wearing a baseball hat walked into a Brooklyn coffee shop this morning, clearly in need of help. However, he struggled to communicate because he didn’t speak English very well. A younger man, working at the café and wearing a beanie, noticed his difficulty and went out of his way to assist… For […]

“A rattlesnake bit one of my sheep in the face about a week ago. Deadliest snake that lives around here. The sheep’s face swelled up and hurt her terribly. But the old rattlesnake didn’t know the kind of blood that flows through the sheep. Anti-venom is most often made from sheep’s blood. The sheep swelled […]

He’s standing, his paws gently resting against the glass. Just like he’s done for weeks. Months. Maybe longer. Every day, he watches. He waits. He hopes. He’s not the kind of dog that jumps, barks, or begs. He’s the kind of dog that waits. Quietly. With dignity. And today, he smiles. That smile—awkward, but radiant—was […]

I met him when he was 60 and I was 50, in 2008. He had been a bachelor all his life, although he’d lived with two different ladies at different times for about a year each. He had no children. We dated a couple years until my kids were out of the nest, then moved […]