The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
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
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
