Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
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
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
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
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails
You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney