Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

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…

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…