First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
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.
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...
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings