Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

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