Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

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

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

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

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way