A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

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

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

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

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…

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.