Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.