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.
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
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.
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
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
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back