It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

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

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make