The thing is, you never really know a person until after he’s dead and maybe, not even then. But you can sure tell a lot more about him...

I didn’t know what I would find there in the house that looked a little like the one I lived in a hundred years ago, in that other life,...

We were almost exactly the same age, twins practically, metaphorically. Born fifteen days apart, I came under the sign of the Crab, ruled by the moon and twice as fickle, she was a Lioness of Leo, brazen as the sun. And when I died, a little of her fire went out, I know, because I saw it go. We’d lived our childhoods a few miles apart, never once meeting until adulthood. We’d both spent our summers in the salty Atlantic waves, our winters wishing for snow days that rarely ca

The clock is fast. Very fast. I stare at the red second hand ticking in slow circles around the face, and I count Mississippis just like...

“Mom, you hafta sign this.” Rosie’s mom lifted her eyebrows and reached for the paper her daughter had slapped onto the kitchen counter....