The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

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

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house