I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

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

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

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

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before