When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

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 see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met