Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,