Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,