In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
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 ...
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
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…
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
