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

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

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

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people