They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
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
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply