Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

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

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

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...

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up