a haiku
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought
