The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.