Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

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...

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

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

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again