I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said 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.
Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...