“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time

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

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...