No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper