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

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees