Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,
I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me
Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
