Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
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.
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet