It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

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.