In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

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…

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.