Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

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

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

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.