My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

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

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

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

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

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

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him