Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

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

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,