It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

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

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...