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Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
hillary dillary dock monica ran up bill’s sock the clock struck three bill said whee hillary dillary dock
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
