In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me