A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because