There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college