A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
