Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

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

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach