So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

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

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.