We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops