She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

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

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open