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...
Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars