He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town