Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
