When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...