First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
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.
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
