You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...