Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

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

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

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.

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone