Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted

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

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

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…

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...

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails