When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado