Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

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

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

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...

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber