After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury