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

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

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

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather