In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
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,
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city