If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...