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
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb
I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
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
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought