Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

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,

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck