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 ...

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

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 teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years