When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
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...
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
