You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

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 ...

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

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

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.