There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids