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

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,