Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple