Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.