We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
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.
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees