In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

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

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.

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs