The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

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

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

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...

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a