November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

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,

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

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…