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...
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...