A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move