When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

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

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city