One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
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
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble