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

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

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.

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn