He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
