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

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

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

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can