Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

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

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away