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…
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
