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

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

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

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…