After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

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

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

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...

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,