Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...