They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
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
