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
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado