Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

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.

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

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

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

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

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