Lucky Garvin
LUCKY GARVIN: Saying Goodbye To Lola
Our Lola appears to be deep in sleep on her favorite corner of the sofa, her head resting on out-stretched paws. But to our sorrow, this is not sleep.The...
LUCKY GARVIN: THE BREAK-IN [from years ago]
Darlin’ wife Sabrina is under the delusion that our pet Doberman Onyx is a guard-dog....
LUCKY GARVIN: The Tale Of The Ugly Christmas Tree
All Christmas trees are beautiful aren’t they? My wife, Sabrina, looked at the artificial Christmas...
LUCKY GARVIN: The Driver
It was nearing Christmas this year; a hard-working Mexican-American family man was driving his fully-loaded...
LUCKY GARVIN: 3 Wildlife Memories
While there are sorrows in the rehabbing of injured, orphaned, or diseased wildlife, there are...
If You Don’t Thank Anyone Else, Thank a Veteran
“The First Battalion’s home. So run to your home Virginia girls and fix your hair with pins; and give them tea and...
My Life Would Have Been Better with a Less Predictable Curve
My right elbow and shoulder ache when it rains, and I blame it all on baseball. In the beginning of my abortive sports career,...
Young Love is Tougher than Any of Us Remember
From long ago:Among the more fascinating dramas taking place within this home is the timid emergence of heterosexuality in sons Chester and Cailan....
The Chain Saw
In my early teens, when not in school, I could usually be found buried in the forested hills of our eighty-eight acres in New...
We Bloom, Like The Tiniest Flower, Then We Move On
I think that I will always define tenderness by those moments. Those moments I watched a wife caress her dying husband, her grief standing silently...
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK… The Sound of Loyalty and Love
There is a certain rhythm to the early mornings in our home, but none more certain and inviolable as when Sabrina, standing in the...