If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
