She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

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

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,