Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

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

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men