River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

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

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped