Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.