He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

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

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

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

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

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

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than