First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week