After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.