You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…