I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

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

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

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

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

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

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 ...