Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

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

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.