Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in