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

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

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

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first