Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

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

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to