If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust