Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents