Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

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

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why