Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

“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