“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

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

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they