Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
