Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

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...