Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…