She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

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

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays