After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
