Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...
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.
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other