In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running