If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner