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

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...