Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

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

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

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

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

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...

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with