We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…