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Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
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
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops