My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
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
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants