I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

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

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

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