We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

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

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.