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.

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather