I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

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 ...

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

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

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

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree