A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on