I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people