The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,