It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.