A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a