Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

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

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

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