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

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

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

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house