Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

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...

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about