He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal