When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

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,

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,