Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

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.

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn