A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

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

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

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

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

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,