I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.