Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.