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

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I