Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

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

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade