An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

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…

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

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