Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple