When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

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

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.