Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

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.

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

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.

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,