I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

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

Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,