Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to