Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

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...

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

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

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,