a haiku
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
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.
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
