On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
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,
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal