Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

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

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job