I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…