Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

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

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

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.

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books