It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

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...

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

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

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake