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
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
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
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up