I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
