Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college