Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

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

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

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

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

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.

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.