They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...