Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
“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
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…
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
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
