Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

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

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails