How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,