Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.