Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job