Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.