In the dream I’m on a bike. I’m always heading home. Maybe we’re in Mexico, Stephanie and me, hiding out until the time is right for our next adventure. We still live one step ahead of the posse. In America, everybody does. In my dream the pandemic is over. We’re getting older, but enlightenment rises […]
“You can’t smoke that cigar in here, Pat.” “This is the Scranton Coal Hole, Mike. We can do whatever we want in our Irish neighborhood bar.” “Except hang a picture of Joe Biden on the wall because we hate Joe Biden.” “That’s why there’s already a picture of Joe Biden in the urinal.” Pat takes […]
Until our next-door neighbor Catherine Corcoran died last week she lived Irish and proud in the same spacious, well-kept white house where she grew up on North Irving Avenue in the Hill Section of Scranton. Independent and bright, Catherine, 81, paid attention to what mattered in the neighborhood. She cared about the world and did […]
Did armed and masked ICE agents recently terrorize a U.S. citizen in Scranton? Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Philadelphia Field Office Public Affairs Officer Jason P. Koontz won’t say. Koontz won’t say if ICE didn’t swarm and terrify an innocent citizen, either. Koontz will say the story “sounds made up.” First […]
Lovebirds in the best sense of the breed, Helo and Kimmy live life as bold eagles flying together and defending their nest. Don’t mess with eagles. Even peaceful hunters know how to use their talons. But one-percenter bikers like Helo can be sensitive too. Ask any brother in his motorcycle club and he’ll tell you […]
