I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

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

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

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