On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

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…

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,