I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

Wrapping his arms around her waist, he kissed her cheek. She inhaled his masculine scent, he smelled of engine grease, citrus hand cleaner and man. She turned in his arms and laid her cheek over...

I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with...

Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn’t join the Army. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read...

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless;...

There was no mistake,” he said. “You freely gave me a kiss because I kept silent about supposed engagement.”Well, you could have been more gentlemanly about it,” she said with a sniff.”If I’d been gentlemanly,...

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too deep,And down came April — drip — drip — drip.Up shone May, like gold, and soonGreen as an...

…People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane…

Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?