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

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low