After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
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
This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
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 ...
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,