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
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
