A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

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.

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along