Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

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…

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

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

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.