That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
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
Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
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...
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
