July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
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.
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to