Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...