Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
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.
