Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family