Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

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

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

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

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury