Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

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

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

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…