There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

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