I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

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...

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

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

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...

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone