Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up