After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

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

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

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

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog