In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

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…

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.