Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

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...

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings