Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...