She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
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
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having