Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer