Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.
