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

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us