Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

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

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...

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.