The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that