The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
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...
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
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
Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
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
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
