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...
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
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.
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college