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

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…