He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

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

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

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

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

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,