After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn