Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

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,

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,