Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
