This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.