My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

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

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian