It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

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

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

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

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants