They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

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...

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...