The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,