Tag Archives: generosity

Fruitcake weather
Truman Capote is best known for In Cold Blood, the chilling account of a Kansas farm family’s 1959 murder that birthed a new form of journalism. But at this time of year, he is remembered for A Christmas Memory, a short story that recalls his little-boy life with a distant cousin, a woman in her sixties with […]

My Walmart romance
I have a secret relationship, one whose particulars would, in some other context, be scandalous. As things are, we could scarcely be more different. His name is Barry, and he is long married in the traditional heterosexual way. I am a lesbian who — caught off guard by the right to wed — neglected to find […]