Fish Story (2017)
When she was a girl, my mother (Dolores) lived on the family farm adjacent to the falls of the San Antonio River in a town called Falls City, which is about 60 miles downstream from the Alamo City. I grew up hearing a story of …
Lydia and the Raccoons (2010)
It had been a fairly uneventful summer for us since our early vacation in the San Juan islands. You may remember an earlier story about our neighbor Lydia, who put in a backyard pond and stocked it with koi. Naturally, the local raccoons thought this …
Windows for Remy (2001)
Updated 29 May 2021. Remy is a village of less than 1,000 people, and lies 60 miles northeast of Paris. In August 1944, a flight of American P-51 fighter planes flying over the town spotted a German train pulled up to the town depot. They …
Grace and the Earthquake (2000)
If you have seen out 1892 house, you know that sometime in the 1920s, a sleeping porch was added on the top and to the side of the front porch. It wasbuilt well, but is of-center and all wrong for the house. Oddly, although it …