He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
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…
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney