We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

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

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with