We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.