Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...