Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney