The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

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...

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s