Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.