Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

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

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

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

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs