It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

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

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…