As tough as he was, my dad Shamus carried around an inspirational poem in his wallet until the day he died. Poems can be tough, too. My dad’s namesake James J. Corbett, boxing’s first heavyweight champion under Marquis of Queensbury rules, wrote the poem called “One More Round.” “Fight one more round. When your feet […]
Pat rushed into the Scranton Irish bar screaming, “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, did you hear the news?” Mike swallowed the last of his Guinness, wiped his mouth on the back of his hand and ordered another pint. “I heard enough Lackawanna County political news on my walk here to make my head blow up like […]
Good newspaper columnists fix their mistakes. Mistakes hurt vulnerable people, including children. When a newspaper columnist promises a reader to correct a mistake in the next day’s paper, the columnist corrects the mistake in the next day’s paper. Scranton Times-Tribune columnist Chris Kelly made a mistake in his Feb. 2 column. Kelly’s words hurt people, […]
All those years ago Bring us to this sacred space Walking together
I did the Trump dance today. No music. Just me doing the Trump dance all by myself. With my feet planted firmly on the tile, pumping my arms back and forth in that nonlinear, contorted, non-rhythmic manner Trump invented and exhibits to celebrate himself, I shimmied and I shook. No, I was not celebrating Trump’s […]
