The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,