The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

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

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…

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was