An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
