Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.