The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
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
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
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
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in