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...

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week