I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,