We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

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.

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.