The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.
There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
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.
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...