He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

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

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm