Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

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

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring