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

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

“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.

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially