Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found