Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

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

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.