I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
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...
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
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
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
