Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

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

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

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

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney