I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
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 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
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
