If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
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,
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
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
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have
