Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
On Sundays Walter gives Pastor J… magazines to read along with comments on his sermons. The pastor loves the magazines but Walter is leaving for another…
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
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 ...
