The Sill of the World

This covers the week of 3/7/21 - 3/13/21. ambulate In the largely empty bookstore, a teenaged boy walks in a slow, wide circle while reading...

This covers the week of 2/21/21 - 2/27/21. anticipation Two people at opposite ends of a room. They're holding books, but they aren'...

This covers the week of 1/31/21 - 2/6/21. complaints As the elevators fail to come for 15, then 20 minutes, I speak to a neighbor from down ...

This covers the week of 1/10/21 - 1/16/21. frozen One chair rests on the ice, and the other two are partly submerged. The ice is thick enoug...

This covers the week of 10/18/20 - 10/24/20. callow The guitarist in the park has talent, but he seems to be only 13 or 14. The lyrics he si...

This covers the week of 9/27/20 - 10/3/20. entertains This afternoon's entertainment at the park: tap dancing, a Vegas lounge act, and a...

This covers the week of 8/30/20 - 9/5/20. gladden Some dogs are patient joy-bringers. This one, a senior golden retriever, swishes its tail ...

This covers the week of 8/23/20 - 8/29/20. derange The man moves like a jumping electric wire. He's tormented to the roots of himself. S...

This covers the week of 8/2/20 - 8/8/20. anuran I love looking at photos of her holding a frog. I wonder if, like me, she'll have a terr...

This covers the week of 7/19/20 - 7/25/20. barricaded The side doors to a vacant hotel are barred with luggage carts. dreading I wish I were...

This covers the week of 7/5/20 - 7/11/20. highbrow A 12-year-old Samoyed dog is getting groomed in the park by his owner, who has brought al...

This covers the week of 6/21/20 - 6/27/20. covidiot Now a regular part of our vocabulary. pillowing The geese are fat brown pillows softenin...

This covers the week of 6/14/20 - 6/20/20. badgering The ducklings snap at dragonflies. cheep The perpetual cheeping of two chicks, one of t...

This covers the week of 5/31/20 - 6/6/20. boarded Many stores are getting boarded up, including a book store. The displays of books disappea...

This covers the week of 5/24/20 - 5/30/20. arboreal Trees heavy with leaves cast silky shadows. disclosed There's a story behind each na...

This covers the week of 4/19/20 - 4/25/20. affability The dog is brisk and friendly as always. Ready to take off on a walk, sniff the larger...

This covers the week of 3/15/20 - 3/21/20. forage They trawl through several stores, buying bottles of water where they can. hurrying Her se...

This covers the week of 10/13/19 - 10/19/19. fittingly Her cooked vegetables are in autumn colors: moist purples, tender shades of orange...

adjourned For their meeting, they settle in a circle on the grass. When the sprinklers go off, they spring up laughing and scamper away wit...

appreciative I need to see each day as a jewel that has landed in my palm. avian They've hung up bird feeders in one part of the woo...