Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he