Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

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,

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana