There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
Being bipolar isn’t easy but it’s tougher when you’re poor and have to walk rather than ride