When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…