He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...