They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...