The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

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

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

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

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three