Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

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.

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