A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…