I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.