They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
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
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
