Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out