In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

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

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?