I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

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…

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.