Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.