It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah