She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...