Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

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 a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind