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

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

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

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

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

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager