In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

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