Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
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…
