His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
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.
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
