Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
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
We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner