I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

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.

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look