It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld
