Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

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.

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said