Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

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

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

“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 ...