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

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney