In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

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

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...