Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond