Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

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

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

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...

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower