An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

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

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

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

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.