twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.