He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop