Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

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

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...

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney