It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought