It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
