For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
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
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,