He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

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

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.