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

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...

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

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

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.