Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

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.

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

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

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

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while