Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian