Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants