Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows