My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
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
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
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...
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level