Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
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…
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.