Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
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
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.
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time