After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
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…
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties