It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

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

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

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

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

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