I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds