When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

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

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

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

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

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

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

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