Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
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 ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.