On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.