Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
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.
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having
I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.