It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days