When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
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
