Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

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