Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.