A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

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

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...