Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,