I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

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.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,