Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
