Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld