The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,