She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…