It was surrounded on three sides by fence, at the back of our yard.  In the summer it served as a vegetable garden […]

The Branden Elm outside my window shivers. It has shivered a plenty this winter. So has the weeping birch, the Siberian larch, […]

“Do you think it’s safe to be walking around out here, now that it’s dark?” she quietly asked as we waited to […]

THE OCEAN We were a good five and a half hours into the flight, nearing the end of our long journey, when […]

“Estas bien?” “Estas bien?” It took a moment for my addled brain to comprehend what our driver Maria (not her real name) […]

I did it – grumpymarty.com! I thought about doing it, even told a few people I was going to do it, and […]