So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
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…
The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…