First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…