If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas