I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

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

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much