When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

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

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family