Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

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...

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

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

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

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house