Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open