You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,