Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
