The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...
Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
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
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
