My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…