You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds