A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.