Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,