I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
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.
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in