If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

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...

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said