Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.