It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.