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

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

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,

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family