Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
