I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
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
Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that
Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
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,