Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

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

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

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

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

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly