Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.
I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
