We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

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

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

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

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe