I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
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…
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...