LAST DAYS OF MAY After my last exam, I stopped to see my brother, who’d just invented a holiday that required him to call off work....

Better twenty in the seventies than seventy in the twenties He did her a favor, donating her fake-fur tiger-striped mini-dress to...

They are with a friend of mine in our share house but sometimes we find ourselves alone and we talk about both our worlds. I have never...

Welcome to C’est La Vie Ranch. Please take your personalized itineraries for your stay, I say to the thirtysomething women in Neiman...

The ice-cream soda comes in brown bottles, sometimes with a packet of crisps, as we play under the table, under everyone’s feet, in the...

2-1/2 cups plain flour: mother-in-law Vera 8 tablespoons butter: Dan, my husband. 1-3/4 cups sugar: “Let’s host my sister’s engagement...

I close the door and turn the key for the very last time, hopeful that my unwanted guest would remain behind the lock. At first, I had...