If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan