She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

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

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up