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...

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

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

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

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

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look