Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service