Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
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...
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV