Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it