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.

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

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

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

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

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

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