The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

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

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.