Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in