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.

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…