When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

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

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches