Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...
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...
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
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,