Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.