Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

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...

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him