Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
