I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

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...

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,