Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
