I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew