When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

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

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes