Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

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

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

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything