White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics