We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again