David Blake entertains us with the babysitter who somehow finds the ‘special’ brownies, while Dan Rott’s service station uniform seems to change size. Xiaomei Chen’s story begins when her mother was a girl at the beginning of the cultural revolution in China.
Late life love, seniors who fall in love, experience the same passion and fascination as younger people who are in love. Seniors don’t always marry; they don’t always have sex; but they find themselves more intimately connected than ever before. What do we have to learn from people who’ve learned what really matters?
Michael Lewis’ “The Parlour Maid’s Pearls” is the story of a house maid who’s given a lovely string of double pearls for her wedding. “Skateboarding with Billy” and “The Fight” describe our “go-outside-and-play” generation of children’s games.
Jim Goodnight approaches gorillas in the wild Africa, including the magnificent silverback known as Kwisanga. He learns how veterinarians from UC Davis help these animals survive and stay wild. Jan Bower also spent time in Africa but as the wife of an archeologist who makes discoveries of her own.
Once Kathi Hickey decides what will cure her cluster headaches, not even a major earthquake can prevent her treatment. Ann Russell imagines that the sound of the meteor which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs was loud beyond measure. But what is the sound of the species that we lose everyday?
Each of these stories is about trying something new. Mo Ose tried meeting a new person every day for a year, while Pieter Pastoor tried new bedding, a duvet, and it changed his life. David Blake tried poetry for the first time, then thought better of it.
