Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

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,

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,