When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed