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

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

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

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

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

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,