Jess Pepper’s review of the Avalon Strings:’In a land so very civilized and modern as ours, it is unpopular to suggest that the mystical isle of Avalon ever truly existed. But I believe I have...

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen

Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up...

This women’s orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

[Jess]”… you were wonderful. Magnificent. Incomparable. Unparalleled. Incredible.””Oh, stop it!” Addie grinned and blushed, and backed a step with each word, as Jess advanced toward her with each accolade. But on the third step, her...

Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil’s dime.