Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
Police arrested a man on suspicion of child abuse after doctors found a small octopus in the throat of his girlfriend’s two-year-old s…
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was