We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
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
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,
Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
