Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

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

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

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…

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere