I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

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...

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

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

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain