I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

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

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.