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.

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

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...

Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport