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Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
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
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
