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…

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while