When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
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
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
