If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

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…

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

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

“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what