Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

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

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

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

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl