I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

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

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

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

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...

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,