I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister