They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

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

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or