I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused