If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
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
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
