He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college