The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

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...

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

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

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by