A Good Turn

Mrs. Kimura always gave us all kinds of goodies over the years. She would make them herself, all year round. A month…

Fly Away Home

I love retirement. In the morning, when folks are standing at the bus stop outside my house, I hang on…

Since the time he’d had braces as a kid, he’d been a floss-aholic. Any food particle between his teeth drove him…

Sometimes it felt like everything came down to a beautiful struggle in the dark, the work and work until she…

If she’s told them once . . . well, she has told them once, hasn’t she? Hasn’t she? It’s hard to…

He’s always thinking about other people, more particularly, what he can do for this family. Barbeque perhaps, bake some muffins,…

I run across the street, against the red light,to get out of the downpour. I have no umbrellaagain. I never know…

So, yeah, that’s the last one there. None of themare perfect, of course, none exactly to my tastes, really,but I’m no…

The plaque says 1909, I read as I leanupon this venerable stone wall, and can seesomeone laid these stones, fit…

I remembered how Russ Feingold, from Wisconsin, stood before the U.S. Senate and cautioned them not to approve authorization for…

Near seven decades of run on, sentenced to a worn and hazy neatlythere you go, so you’ve slowed, you slowly,…

The idea is knowing that I can gosomewhere, and I am making the firstpattern of steps, no one has ever…

Starts a bit of off-white in the corner of your eye, a smallstorm cloud, a tiny spy, that spot, surveillance…

Hotel California, I can’t outrun you, see, how she’s blocking me

When they come, it’s a surprise cook up somewhereplunked potluck between here and — that Idon’t really know free range,…

David Chan thought his partner might make and interesting tour guide. “This guy, this neighborhood, what a frickin bunch of…

Being able to tell a joke is an art,rolling helter-skelter over a rough patchof cobbled words to a smooth finish,kicking…

It was very strange, wandering there in the woods of Cape Breton. I had just finished 10th-grade. My folks and I were…

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