When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
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
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
