twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
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...
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.