Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

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

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar