Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
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…
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
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
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear