Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
