a haiku
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
