Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
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…
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
