What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
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
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard