Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when ever...

  You know how the oddest memories can pop into your mind? This morning I was trying to ignore the horrible, awful, disgusting news all over...

  But i did buy myself a pretty new red dress. ❤ (i am not as old as Cheerios). Cheerios by Billy Collins One bright morning in a restaurant...

  So. Did we lift our glasses in a toast to the judge, the jury, the Manhattan DA and the American justice system just after 5:00 p.m. the a...

You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goble...

  Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the wind...

  If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows ...

How suddenly the private is revealed in a bombed-out city, how the blue and white striped wallpaper of a second-storey bedroom is no...

  Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a single mouse to punctuate t...

Everyone has two birthdays according to the English essayist Charles Lamb, the day you were born and New Year’s Day— a droll observation to ...

One bright morning in a restaurant in Chicago as I waited for my eggs and toast, I opened the Tribune only to discover that I was the same a...