Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
