He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

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.

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

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 ...

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

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

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can