NonFiction - Year VII - Number 51 - November 2021

Where is the love?   “This time of year makes me feel sentimental.” Dad said.  “How do you mean?” I ask. “Remember, in Chicago, when you kids were small? Those are my favorite memories of Christmas.”  “Yes, mine too....

The Dinner Table By Frances Guerin Dinner at 29 Alpha Road was a formal occasion. My family sat around an antique oak table in a wood-panelled room every night of the week. The ten-seater table was the...

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen I bring the side of the pan down hard on the butcher...

Eating Salad with a Spoon You’re a gorgeous bride at forty-six. Your third marriage, the one you never thought you’d never do, suits you. And your husband-to-be, ten years older, handsome in his cute, little...

They Only See Us While We Wear the Mask I meet my friends Julie and Paul in the parking lot of a restaurant at the I-40 exit. They’re returning home to Texas from Maryland, where...

Struggle for Some, Vacation for Others Taylor García’s Slip Soul is not afraid to find human goodness amid hardship Living in San Diego can be what many people imagine: sunny beaches, palm trees, Taco Tuesday, and...

China 1990: The Soul of an Entrepreneur (Author’s Note: When the future seems uncertain, our natural tendency is to think about the past. For me, the past is a long and amazing career traveling all...