Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

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...

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

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