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 ...

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

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