It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
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...
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...