Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.