A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
