She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

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

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,