Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
