She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney