Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
