I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
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
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble