Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.