Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

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

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married