You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them