She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
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.
