A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

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

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney