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

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

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

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

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

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf