“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

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...

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right