There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...
First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat
