In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

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

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,