A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

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

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

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

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

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...