The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,