They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
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
