I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
