Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

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

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

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