It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

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...

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.