A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more 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

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

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...

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but