She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
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
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
