An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
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…
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.