I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

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

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney