How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

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.

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day