Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way