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.

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

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

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…