It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd