When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

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

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow