She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there