The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

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.

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers