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.

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

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

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

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...

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to