It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

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

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

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

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it