It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

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

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

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

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

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

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

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he