Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…
The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
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.