This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

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,