In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

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

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

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