Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

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

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.