Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather