It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

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

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him