“How do I look?” she said, looking at herself in her mirror “Gorgeous, as usual,” he replied. “That’s what you always say,” ‘That’s...

It was Monsignor Dolan’s job to do, but one too many holiday dinners with his wealthy parishioners had brought on a case of gout and made...

My good friend’s grandson was at the dinner table happily enjoying “Friday Night is Pizza Night,” when, in between bites of pepperoni, he...

At dinner the other night I found a rhinoceros on my plate. He was hiding in my mashed potatoes with only his head showing, his mouth...

A short while ago a friend of mine, a 5th grade elementary school math teacher, asked me if I could tell her where Europe was. She didn’t...

In response to the sickening wave of mass killings in schools, some have proposed “hardening” schools as a means of preventing such...

When I was growing up and “The Lone Ranger” television series was popular, a story went around about the friendship between the Lone...

It’s been a difficult year filled with hate, fear and anger. One group after another has taken to the streets almost every week to either...

He was afraid of the water. Even though it was over 90 degrees outside and stiflingly hot in the family’s small Brooklyn apartment, Joey...

Gaspar did not hear the sniper’s shot, only the “ping” of the bullet striking metal. He looked to the right to his friend Philippe in the...

Joey was named after his grandfather. Actually, his grandfather’s name was ‘Giuseppe,’ but since before the war second generation Italian...

Watching mainstream nightly news in this time of world crisis I note that the second “lead” story every night (after coverage of the...

There are few Americans alive today who were around at the beginning of what came to be known as World War II and, among the generations...

I had the radio on driving to Los Angeles today and caught the last few minutes of Jake Tapper’s Sunday morning show on CNN. He spent...

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Well, at least it was a payday. Not much of one probably, but a payday, nonetheless. The subject was in a home on Ocean Parkway in...

I just opened up a news feed and saw pictures of a 6-year-old Ukrainian girl on an ambulance gurney, she and her father covered in blood...

Leach led the way. It was his ground, and he knew the path. There was not a hint of a trail to the others following along behind. Dead...

She was looking into her coffee, twirling it with her spoon. “Send me away,” she said. “I am a devil.” * * * ...

Gaspar had been at the head of his class. He dabbled in poetry, and one of his works had been accepted for publication across the Channel...