In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

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…

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

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.

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the