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

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

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...