He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

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

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

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…

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people