World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

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.

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

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 student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

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

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays