It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
