Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

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

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

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

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...