Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

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

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or