Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

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

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.