Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
