Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
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
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber