It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
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...
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade