Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

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

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she