Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

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

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.