a haiku
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
