Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over