Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

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 ...

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are