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

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

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...

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.