illustration of a forest with a sky at sunset

Finding My Walden

Valentine's Day, 1979. My parents gave me a beautiful leather-bound edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden that year as a gift. My father, who has an amazing talent for calligraphy…
young soldier in Vietnam War

The Boy in the Box

This story was first published in Virginia Commonwealth University's annual Richmond Arts Magazine. Thank you to Dennis Danvers and Gregory Donovan for the early encouragement in creativity. The boy placed…