My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.