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

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

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

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…