Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

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

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

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