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

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

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two