Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

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

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.