Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

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.

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

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

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up