“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

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

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,