Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
hillary dillary dock monica ran up bill’s sock the clock struck three bill said whee hillary dillary dock
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,