Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

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

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

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.

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

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 ...

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right