A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
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
With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.