Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over